Kashrut is a tradition that elevates the spiritual level of ones home.
What is is the opinion of Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan?
100
Kosher or unkosher: ferret.
What is unkosher?
200
Split hooves and chews its cud
What makes an animal kosher?
200
This is used to get the blood out of meat.
What is salt?
200
Hebrew- "milk"
What is chalav?
200
People who don't keep kosher are still healthy.
What is the Akedat Yitzchak's opinion?
200
It is unkosher because it chews its cud but does not have split hooves.
What is a hyrax, hare, or camel?
300
One cannot eat meat that contains this.
What is blood?
300
A common misconcenption about the hechering process.
What is rabbi's blessing the food?
300
Hebrew- "slaughterer." A person trained in the rituals of slaughter, who is allowed to perform shecita.
What is a shochet?
300
We want to dignify human behavior and making eating a holy activity.
What is the position of Rabbi Kushner?
300
It is unkosher because it has split hooves but does not chew its cud.
What is a pig?
400
Can be eaten out of the insect phylum.
What are red, yellow, spotted grey, and white locusts?
400
A way of separating meat and milk.
What are separate dishes or waiting b/w meat and milk?
400
Yiddish- "smooth." Used to describe meat that does not have lung lesions (thus is smooth). Also used to describe anyone who is extremely strict in their practice.
What is glatt?
400
Nechama Leibowitz explained the position of...
What is the Sifra Kedoshim?
400
Kosher or unkosher: giraffe.
What is kosher?
500
Exodus 23:19, Exodus 34:26, Deuteronomy 14:21
What p'sukim does "Thou shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk" appear in the Torah?
500
Adds to the list of meat that cannot be eaten with milk.
What is poultry?
500
Hebrew- "fat." The general term for fat which is permissible to eat (as opposed to chelev).
What is shuman?
500
To stress spiritual health, not physical health.
What is the Abravanel's opinion?
500
Unkosher "bird" that is incorrectly placed with the birds in the Torah.